Colm McKeogh holds a BA and PhD in political science from Trinity College Dublin and an MSc (Econ) in strategic studies from Aberystwyth, Wales. He lectures on Christian attitudes to political violence at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research centres on just war and pacifism. His publications include The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr: a Pragmatic Approach to Just War (Macmillan, 1997), Innocent Civilians: the Morality of Killing in War (Palgrave, 2002), and Tolstoy’s Pacifism (Cambria, 2009)